Quote Originally Posted by airgunbob View Post
When I left school back in the late 50s, I got a job in Bishopsgate & often used to have a look in Charlie Riggs's shop in my lunch hour. As I remember it, the place was really a sports shop although they did have some BSA Air rifles. Don't remember seeing any motor bikes though. The best shop in the area was Ogden Smiths of the Royal Exchange. They sold all sorts of guns. They had Airguns,Shotguns,Rifles,Pistols, the lot. They even had Webley revolvers on display in the window!! If Jackie Smith had been Home secretary back those days she would have wet her knickers !!
........Thanks mate......I am here at 7 with a cuppa, relaxing before going in to work, I was enjoying this interesting thread until the last sentence...now I have this horrendous image in my head of that old shunter